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[Tyler Brainerd <tylerbrainerd@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know, I know, we just had an announcement about changing menu's over to
global menu's for the UNE. But seriously, how necessary is 4 menus in the
calculator application "gcalctool"? The only menu options that have anything
to do with actual calculator options are under the view menu. The rest is
silly and redundant.

I just wrote a fairly long blog post on my blog here, along with mockups and
what not:
http://tjamesubuntu.blogspot.com/2010/05/re-thinking-desktop.html

about how silly most apps menu's are. I'm hoping that we can maybe pool some
resources on looking at what is and what isn't necessary in default
applications in Ubuntu, although I'm not under any impression that this will
be something to be put directly in default Ubuntu. However, I do think it is
the sort of mod that can gain traction similar to Nautilus-Elementary if we
can get applications repackaged with cleaned up and optimized menus.